Pause Button Emoji
This emoji shows two vertical parallel lines, used to pause the music on a music player.
Pause Button is a fully-qualified emoji, part of Unicode 0.7 , and was added to Emoji 0.7 .
This emoji is part of the Symbols and is grouped with other Av Symbol emojis. Part of the Unicode Miscellaneous Technical block.
Copy and paste the Pause Button emoji:
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Codes & Encoding for the Pause Button Emoji
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Codepoint
U+23F8 U+FE0F✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
⏸️✓ Copied -
HTML (hex)
⏸️✓ Copied -
CSS
\23F8\FE0F✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{23F8}\u{FE0F}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%E2%8F%B8%EF%B8%8F✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:pause_button:✓ Copied - Unicode block Miscellaneous Technical
How to Type the Pause Button Emoji
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iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
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Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
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Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
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macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
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Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
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Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
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Slack Type :pause_button: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :pause_button: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Pause Button Emoji on Different Platforms
How to Use the Pause Button Emoji
- Hit ⏸️ when I need a break.
- Pause the video with ⏸️.
- ⏸️ button is perfect for a quick stop.